It was truly sad news for me to hear of the passing of Carey Lee
Johnson, last evening, and it will be equally as bad for my little
brother Terry Lee to hear this news; for he and I looked upon Carey
Lee as one of our big hearted big brother's. I will never forget
the day he stood alongside Terry Lee and I at the home of the Dixie
Oil magnate at a brief ceremonial presentation, where Terry Lee
and I were presented the Mississippi State Flag from the Sons that
Carey Lee loved so dearly, as we crossed into the State on the Historic
March Across Dixie.

While Carey Lee was not a member of the Twenty Mile Club ( any
individual who marched twenty miles on the March Across Dixie
and bears the signed Certificate stating the accomplishment.),
I shall never forget the morning that this big hearted man who
could barely walk , and in obvious tremendous pain ; stepped out
on a back Mississippi road, and lumbered alongside me, and at
my request proudly carrying the very first flag that I would carry
in this fight for Southern vindication ; Third National Flag that
had been presented to me by Mr.. Roger McCredie, the then National
Heritage Defense Chair of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and
current Administrator of the Southern Legal Resource Center .
There would be a many mornings after that walk with Carey Lee,
that my mind would say to me; HK, you've walked all the way to
Mississippi, boy you are tired, you can't walk another twenty
mile day,and then I would feel his courage, and see the determination
in his eyes as he struggled to walk at least one mile for his
Southern family that he loved and spoke of so eloquently; and
Carey Lee Johnson walked that mile , and he like many more to
come would serve as an inspiration for me to reach down inside
and find another step. My only regret now is that I did not get
the opportunity to fulfill his wish that I speak to his Camp.
God bless Carey Lee Johnson , Heaven could not receive a better
man , and God and General Lee will recognize him by the smile
, and those big Confederate hands.